Several international parties have condemned the Friday’s Israeli attacks on mourners and pallbearers during the Palestinian iconic journalist Shireen Abu Akleh’s funeral procession in Occupied Jerusalem.
Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly condemned the Israeli occupation police’s prevention of releasing the body of al-Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh from the French hospital and their suppression of the funeral precession.
The French embassy to Israel also condemned the attack saying in a tweet: “Dismayed by Israeli police violence at #ShireenAbuAqla’s funeral at St Joseph’s Hospital an establishment under French protection. These scenes are shocking.”
Reporters Without Borders also expressed shock of the Israeli attack on the funeral precession.
Scottish MP Monica Lennon pointed out that “the suppression of Shireen Abu Akleh’s funeral is despicable and inhuman.”
British MP Kim Leadbeater went to Twitter to comment on the attack saying: “Outrageous scenes from the funeral of #ShireenAbuAkleh. Despicable and inexcusable to attack unarmed mourners.”
Earlier Friday Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh has been laid to rest in a cemetery in Occupied Jerusalem three days after she was fatally shot by Israeli forces while reporting on a raid in the occupied West Bank.
Prior to her burial Israeli police forces stormed the grounds of a Jerusalem hospital as the coffin containing the body of Shireen Abu Akleh was being carried on its way to the church for final rituals before burial.
TV images showed the Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh’s coffin nearly falling to the ground as police grabbed Palestinian flags from the crowd around the procession outside St Joseph’s hospital in Occupied Jerusalem.
